Southern Authors
This Mississippi-born author wrote The Sound and the Fury, known for its complex narrative structure and the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
Who is William Faulkner?
In this series finale, a mobile army hospital operating during the Korean War is shut down as peace is finally declared, bringing an end to years of wartime service and camaraderie.
What is MASH?
This civil rights leader helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest and later delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This 1964 film follows a Cockney flower seller who is transformed into a lady of high society through speech lessons led by Professor Henry Higgins.
What is My Fair Lady?
This pop artist became famous for repeating images of soup cans and celebrity portraits, blurring the line between fine art and advertising.
Who is Andy Warhol?
This aptly nicknamed playwright wrote A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
This long-running sitcom ends with a bar closing for the night and the bartender saying "Sorry, we're closed."
What is Cheers?
This civil rights leader founded the Nation of Islam and later became a powerful voice for Black empowerment after breaking with the organization.
Who is Malcolm X?
This 1965 musical tells the story of a governess who becomes a nanny to seven children in Austria just before World War II.
What is the Sound of Music?
This painter is known for placing canvases on the floor and creating energetic drip paintings using forceful, physical paint application.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
This Georgia-born author wrote Gone with the Wind, a Civil War–era epic centered on Scarlett O’Hara.
Who is Margaret Mitchell?
This sitcom ends with a courtroom trial involving several returning characters, ultimately sending the main group to prison for violating the Good-Samaritan law.
What is Seinfeld?
This leader of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund argued the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This 2001 film follows a young woman working in a Paris cabaret during the Belle Époque, with stylized performances of popular songs.
What is Moulin Rouge?
This anonymous artist creates graffiti-style works that often appear overnight in public spaces and frequently contain political or social commentary.
Who is Banksy?
This Louisiana writer is known for Interview with the Vampire and other works blending Southern settings with the supernatural.
Who is Anne Rice?
This drama’s finale shows its main character finally taking control of his criminal empire, while closing out the story with a famously abrupt cut to black.
What is the Sopranos?
This civil rights leader was a key organizer of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery marches and later served as a longtime U.S. Congressman from Georgia.
Who is John Lewis?
This colorful 2016 musical film follows a jazz pianist and an aspiring actress navigating love and ambition in Los Angeles.
What is La La Land?
This Chinese contemporary artist is known for large-scale installations that critique government authority and often use repetitive or mass-produced materials.
Who is Ai Weiwei?
This Georgia-born author wrote “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and is known for Southern Gothic short stories featuring violence and religious themes.
Who is Flannery O'Connor?
In one of the greatest finales in television history, a Vermont innkeeper suddenly finds himself back in bed with his wife from a previous TV series, revealing the entire show was imagined.
What is Newhart?
This educator and civil rights leader was the first African American woman to run for president of the United States in 1972 as a major-party candidate.
Who is Shirley Chisolm?
This 1975 film adapts a rock opera centered on a deaf, blind, and mute boy who becomes a pinball prodigy and cult figure.
One of this artist’s most famous works features a large shark suspended in a glass tank of formaldehyde, titled The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.
Who is Damien Hirst?